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STM House of Prayer
Jun 26, 20214 min read
TOP 10 REASONS to Pray the Liturgy of the Hours (in all times and circumstances!)
In the Spring of 2020, we were just beginning to feel the spiritual effects of the COVID lockdowns and restrictions. Churches were...
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STM House of Prayer
May 21, 20217 min read
Pope Pius XII on the Divine Office
What follows is one of the greatest Papal teachings ever given on the Divine Office. Much of what was said in Sacrosantum Concilium from...
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STM House of Prayer
Mar 29, 20214 min read
Let the Praise of God be on their Lips and a Two-edged Sword in their Hands
At the beginning of Lent, we hosted what may become our annual Men’s Lenten Retreat with the Desert Fathers. The conferences for the...
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STM House of Prayer
Oct 23, 20203 min read
Blessed Columba Marmion on the Excellence of the Divine Office
For some time I have been reading the works of Blessed Columba Marmion, a Benedictine abbot who lived from 1858 until 1923. Marmion has...
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STM House of Prayer
Sep 10, 20203 min read
Should I Pray with a Book or an App?
Occasionally I am asked for my opinion on whether we should pray the Liturgy of the Hours with a book or an app. I always preface my...
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STM House of Prayer
Aug 8, 20203 min read
Changing Adam's Course
In the Office of Readings for Friday in the Eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, we find these penetrating words of St. John of the Cross,...
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STM House of Prayer
Jul 31, 20203 min read
Holiness of the Richest Kind
In the document Lumen Gentium, we read of the universal call to holiness – “that all the faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status...
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STM House of Prayer
Jun 24, 20204 min read
Catechesis and the Liturgy of the Hours
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it states, “The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; it is...
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STM House of Prayer
May 30, 20208 min read
The Perfect Novena to the Holy Spirit
It was on Monday or Tuesday of this past week that I started to see social media posts with links to novenas to the Holy Spirit....
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STM House of Prayer
Mar 21, 20204 min read
TOP 10 REASONS to Pray the Liturgy of the Hours (in a time like this!)
We are living in strange times. I think it is safe to say that very few Catholics in the West would have ever imagined living through a...
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STM House of Prayer
Feb 25, 20203 min read
Pray with the Church this Lent!
Alas, Lent has arrived! This time of year we inevitably hear questions being asked such as, Why Lent?,What is the purpose of Lent?, How...
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STM House of Prayer
Jan 18, 20204 min read
The Unsurpassable Greatness and Glory of the Sacred Liturgy (Part II)
Solemn Vespers of Easter, London Oratory (newliturgicalmovement.org) In our first post, we established how it is through the Mass that...
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STM House of Prayer
Jan 16, 20204 min read
The Unsurpassable Greatness and Glory of the Sacred Liturgy (Part I)
This is part one of a two part essay on the relationship between the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Divine Office, and how together...
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STM House of Prayer
Dec 7, 20193 min read
Pray with the Church this Advent!
Come November, Christians can often be heard expressing their intentions to remain focused this year on the “reason for the season”...
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STM House of Prayer
Nov 14, 20193 min read
Guéranger and The Restoration of the Office
In the preface to his monumental work, The Liturgical Year (1841), Dom Prosper Guéranger speaks of the supernatural quality of the...
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STM House of Prayer
Oct 8, 20193 min read
The Liturgy of the Hours: A Public and Communal Prayer
The General Instructions on the Liturgy of the Hours state very clearly that the Liturgy of the Hours is not a “private function,” but...
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